new this morning, san francisco getting a new police chief. he has a long history with the department, but is he ready to run it? i'm christie smith, we'll be talking about that coming up in a live report. and the oakland coliseum is about to get a new name. plus, hackers enjoying your personal information. what they stole from sony and how they can use it. a live look outside at the bay bridge this morning. it's wednesday, april 27th, and this is "today in the east bay." well, good morning, everyone.

i'm scott mcgrew. it is 4:30, let's get right to an east bay forecast and meteorologist christina loweren. >> good morning to you, scott. i always like it when you say meteorologist, it sounds so good. but sometimes you don't have to be a meteorologist because the weather this week is going to be phenomenal. perfect weather. as we head through the afternoon hours, our temperatures are going to climb into the 70s today, so get ready for another beautiful day in the bay area. i'll let you know just how much warmer it will be from yesterday in the east bay. i think you'll be quite pleased with the numbers we have on tap for you. let's check the numbers on the roadways. >> good morning, christina. the speed limit for most commute spots 65. 680, there's 71 going on there. we do have some construction, you should always slow for the cone zone. eastbound at willow pass road, that's picking up right now but in your commute direction we do

have the summersville off-ramp scheduled for closure and construction through 6:00 a.m. the on-ramp is where things get crowded. everybody is getting out of antioch for that longer commute over towards the city. back to you. a 30-year veteran of the san francisco police department set to be named chief today. well liked amongst the rank and file but he has a checkered past with the department. christie smith is live in san francisco with more on that announcement. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. well, he certainly has a long career with sfpd including running two of the department's toughest station houses, including the bayview. well, now he is the pick to be police chief. we're talking about captain greg sur, he's 52 years old. the then chief moved over to the district attorney's office. he was most recently in command

of the bayview district where homicides dropped dramatically while he was in charge. he is mayor ed lee's choice and has a number of strong backers, like the police officers association and state attorney general kamala harris. when he was deputy chief he was one of the command staff indicted in 2003 for allegedly conspiring to obstruct the investigation into fajita-gate, who can forget that. that was where off-duty cops allegedly beat up two men over their food. a judge ultimately dropped the indictment as baseless, but there are a number of things he's going to be dealing with as well, including budget cuts. but he is expected to be sworn in here today at 11:00 a.m. reporting live, christie smith. the oakland coliseum may get a new name today. a deal expected to be approved will name it overstock.com

coliseum. the online retailer will shell out $1.2 million per year for the next six years to get the rights to the name, but the a's and the raiders probably shouldn't get too familiar with overstock. overstock.com is in the process of renaming itself o.co so eventually it could be the o.co coliseum. it's the closest thing to a giveaway. santa clara is looking for more than 1300 families and businesses that have not claimed money on deposit with the county. in some cases the money is in the thousands. one family apparently has $24 house waiting for them. their name was on a list of people and businesses owed restitution because they were victims of a crime or money is on account with the county and there were overpayments. the family says the money could not have come at a better time. >> the last couple of dollars, you try to manage your money as best you can. it's just so weird because we're

down to our last maybe $300. so, yeah, this money is going to be a godsend. >> now folks on this list have until may 27th to claim their money. after that it gets used by the county itself. gamers beware, you may have been hacked. as we've been reporting, sony's online network for the playstation suffered a catastrophic failure. millions of gamers may have had their personal information compromised. che cheryl hurd has a look at how to protect yourself. >> reporter: if you give out any information on the computer, you run the risk of that information being hacked. it happened to millions of people worldwide. alex considers himself a gamer. his sister, not so much. their mother, julie, says she knows about sony's recent network breach and she's worried about her personal identity being stolen. >> to have these kinds of services, you have to put in

credit card numbers, addresses, phone numbers. >> reporter: if you own a sony playstation, that information is in jeopardy. >> it started off what seemed like some kind of an interruption of service to playstations online network, the gaming network, but then within probably a day of that, sony came out and said it was something much more serious. >> reporter: the sony network hacked. the company released a statement to us saying an unauthorized person obtained personal information belonging to roughly 77 million gamers worldwide. that's twice the population of california. neil o'farrell, founder of the identity theft council, says this could be the largest data broach of its kind. >> it's not just the breach of the epsilon breach a week ago that was just name and e-mail address, but this could include names, home addresses, e-mails, billing information.

>> reporter: and maybe even complete credit card information. sony says the network has temporarily turned off playstation network and hired a security firm to investigate and strengthen the network infrastructure. good news for julie berry, with monitoring her credit card statements closely, making sure she is not a victim. >> it's not a perfect situation, but obviously it's happened and everybody just has to deal with the fallout from it. >> reporter: companies will be spending a lifetime trying to stay ahead of the hackers. in danville, cheryl hurd, "today in the bay." it's 4:37. a second richmond police officer has left his job after accusations that he and a colleague hired armed teens for their private security firm. richmond police tell the "san francisco chronicle" the department received a letter of rezmation from officer ray thomas. the other officer, danny harris, left the department last week. now, these officers ran the

department's explorer scout program and two former scouts say harris bought them guns, illegally, and they carried them while working for the officers' private security business. antioch city leaders looking at ways to make neighborhoods safer and more attractive. the city is considering expanding code enforcement. those are the people who make sure you don't keep an old car in your yard and address other blight. two years ago budget restrictions reduced that department to one person. during a three-day tour of the bay area, u.s. representative luis gutierrez scheduled stops throughout the area. last night he was in redwood city. today he'll speak in oakland, san francisco and napa before heading to southern california. in what many are calling the bill of dreams, one of his messages is to push the obama administration to cut down on a

record high number of deportations. >> we're asking him to use the broadest, most expensive, most generous discretion that he could use. >> now, the congressman is also seeking to prevent the deportation of undocumented high school graduates who were brought here by their parents. 4:39. bart riders may finally get late-night service. bart ran round the clock service for a month when the bay bridge closed for construction and emergency repairs in 2009. now it may revive that service or at least have late-night service for a six-month trial beginning this fall. under the proposal, trains that leave end of the line stations at midnight would depart an hour later on friday nights. saturday service would begin an hour later at 7:00 in the morning. all right, let's check in with christina this morning. it's 4:39. >> 4:39, it is early out there, a little on the chilly side as well but not too bad.

overall we have clear conditions, no fog just yet. we could see some develop, especially up in the north bay. overall having a pretty nice start to this wednesday morning. the reason why is high pressure. you can see these clouds arcing up and around. a big ridge of high pressure which is actually going to break down just a little bit as this short wave trough moves in. i really don't think we're going to see any more cloud cover out of this but possibly windy conditions, especially through the east bay hills. as you know, the winds can howl at times so that's what we're expecting tomorrow. today, though, relatively calm winds. 51 in oakland, 49 in concord and 51 in hayward. by noon our temperatures are climbing into the mid-60s and today we'll round out our highs in the 70s. 70 degrees today in fremont, 70 in concord and 71 in livermore. even warmer tomorrow. then we're going to start to level off towards the weekend but still staying nice. i've got your full forecast

coming up in minutes. let's get you to work with mike inouye. >> a light volume of traffic but that's why it's curious. the approach to the bay bridge shows you no problems but way over on your right side, you see that 46 coming off of the walnut creek interchange for southbound 680. no incidents there. i'll watch and see if that sticks around. 680 across the benicia bridge a smooth drive as well as the car ke keenes bridge. i told you about the construction but we got a new incident in brentwood. v vasco road at walnut boulevard. several goats and cows just milling around the intersection. it will affect you heading over towards highway 4. i don't have a sheep icon, but i do have a cow, so there you go. >> thank you, mike. it's 4:41.

coming up, we'll talk about late night sleeping and very short sleep. can you do it? and youtube expands its movie rental service. the royal wedding is helping the local economy as well, and we have live pictures of oakland. moo!

well, the world's largest cell phone maker will cut 4,000 jobs by the end of the year. nokia says it's facing stiff competition from smartphone rivals. for more business news before the bell, let's go to nicole lapin. >> reporter: you forgot to say sleepless nicole lapin as well. futures are flat this morning as investors don't seem to take any major positions ahead of the fed's rate decision this afternoon. of course that comes at 12:30 p.m. eastern time. the fed is widely expected to leave interest rates on hold and stick to plans to buy billions in government bonds through june. ben bernanke will hold a press

conference at 2:15 p.m. eastern time. the first post briefing ever in the fed's 97-year history. so we're excited for him to meet the press but before that decision we get data on durable goods earnings from boeing and oil giant conoco phillips. after the close we hear from ebay and starbucks. youtube is planning to expand its movie rental business to include more and newer titles. films will be available the very same day they're released on dvd and other on demand services. no launch date yet has been announced but warner brothers, universal, lions gate are all expected to provide content so it's going to cost about the same as from itunes, three or four bucks for a 24-hour period. >> this bernanke thing will be carried live on cnbc, i assume? >> reporter: what do you think, it's like our super bowl. >> let me put you totally on the spot.

what one thing with cnbc or the financial community like to know out of him? >> reporter: oh! when are you going to raise rates. that is the big question. >> that is the one he won't answer. >> reporter: exactly. it's a four-step process. everybody thinks this will happen overnight but first you have to wind down qe-2, which is the bond buying program we've engaged in, then shrink the balance sheet, then signal that you're going to raise rates and then actually raise rates. so there's this whole big pomp and circumstance. but we're very excited about this. this is a big day for cnbc. i'm showing my true nerd colors. >> nicole lapin, thanks for letting me put you on the spot. all right, christina loren joins us. let's ask you about the forecast. >> good idea there, mr. mcgrew. 71 degrees in napa, 70 in redwood city and 72 for santa rosa today. and let me just point out right away, we are going to see a

gorgeous, gorgeous weekend ahead. yesterday it looked like our temperatures were going to start to drop a little bit, and they will. friday we'll start to come down just a bit but overall our temperatures will climb towards that 80-degree mark both saturday and sunday. clear skies this morning making for cool conditions out there. you're going to need a jacket, something you can take off later. you might even go for the tank top today. 51 in oakland, 45 in sunnyvale right now. turning over to the 60s by noon. 64 in concord and 62 in livermore. 70s today and here it is, your extended outlook. scott, we've been waiting for these conditions. we're going to get to your seven-day outlook in just a minute and make you wait just a little bit longer. i'll have that for you coming right up. the warriors could soon look for a new head coach. the team or a team source anyway told bay area news group that keith smart may be let go today. smart was only guaranteed one year on his contract and the

team gets to choose if they want a second year. the first year head coach led golden state to a losing record this past season, but he did win ten more games than the season before. the a's in desperate need of runs but they may have to get by without one of their star hitters. coco crisp doubtful for today with a sore leg. oakland is trying to avoid a sweep in anaheim. they lost 8-3 yesterday. on the mound for the a's today, we'll have oakland native tyson ross. coming up, the economic benefits of the royal wedding here in the bay area. and we won't have the wedding traffic, that's a little further out of our commute. but westbound 580 i've been watchi somunusual slowing pop on and off of these sensors. i'll have a look at your commute coming up.

4:55 right now. amtrak wants to make east bay train tracks safer. it's going to run a special train for city and community leaders later this morning. the group will ride along the berkeley and richmond line to watch pedestrians trespassing on the tracks. it will also observe motorists who drive illegally through rail crossings. let's check in with mike. good morning, mike. >> good morning, scott. we'll take you out to antioch. you know, i told you about the mini herd of cows and goats on vasco road. reports are there was a car accident. one person might have hit one of the cows but it has cleared so

vasco road, watching for any activity. there's a new accident on highway 4 in your commute direction as well right around love ridge. we don't see any major slowing but that might be blocking the slow lane. this could be an issue coming out of antioch. we'll track that very carefully. over towards hayward we're looking at 880 and 92, there's some debris reported in the roadway but the connector onto westbound 92 getting across that san mateo bridge is open. a live look shows you the camera, well, it's steadier than yesterday but there's a little shake so maybe some wind catching you as you come over the high rise. keep that in mind as you're crossing the san mateo bridge. the dumbarton bridge has a high section as well. the royal wedding drumming up business in london and here in the bay area. celebrating the fairy tale love story requires accessories. for many it's a special hat. harold and hart hats, a brand from england, are the topper.

>> mrs. dusen says it's hatitude. you have to carry the hat, don't let the hat carry you. >> and san francisco's palace hotel can't pass on a royal event. guests will be able to relive the magic at a royal viewing party breakfast on the 29th, serving special drinks and food that any brit fan would love. you can see it closeup and enjoy the wed parties there. fans can enjoy the festivities from their own home. the "today" show will begin at 1:00 and then local cut-ins and a full hour of news at 6:00. thehe r resumumes resumes toyda fne othor f oe mf accusd killing oakland journalist chncey ng bailey. we'll tell you what's ahead in court.

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